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or mr. pitman's restoration. 207:
will probably remain for ever a matter of uncer-
tainty. "We may be quite sure tbat the two por-
tions of colossal horse belonged to the chariot group,
and that the principal frieze was an external one,
forming a part of the order ; so, again, there is every
probability that the figure to which I have given
the name Mausolus, and the female figure found
with it, once stood in the quadriga. The positions
assigned to the remaining statues, and the lions,
though not proved by any direct evidence, have in
their favour the analogy of other monuments.
With regard, however, to the other friezes and the
groups in panels, their respective places in Mr.
Pullan's restoration must be considered as matter
of conjecture.
In reference to the question how the interior of
the tomb Avas arranged, all that was ascertained by
excavation was the one fact that there had been
an entrance on the level of the lowest course of
the foundations closed with a great stone, and that
a staircase from without led down to it.
It seems probable, as Mr. Pullan supposes, that
the chamber in which the remains of Mausolus
were deposited was on the level of this entrance,
and it is remarkable how his arrangement of the
interior tallies with that of the Koul Oba, near
Kertsch, which has been already referred to, and
which we can hardly doubt to have been the burial-
place of one or more of the Greek kings of the
Bosphorus.5
s For an account of this tomb, see Antiquites du Bospliore'
will probably remain for ever a matter of uncer-
tainty. "We may be quite sure tbat the two por-
tions of colossal horse belonged to the chariot group,
and that the principal frieze was an external one,
forming a part of the order ; so, again, there is every
probability that the figure to which I have given
the name Mausolus, and the female figure found
with it, once stood in the quadriga. The positions
assigned to the remaining statues, and the lions,
though not proved by any direct evidence, have in
their favour the analogy of other monuments.
With regard, however, to the other friezes and the
groups in panels, their respective places in Mr.
Pullan's restoration must be considered as matter
of conjecture.
In reference to the question how the interior of
the tomb Avas arranged, all that was ascertained by
excavation was the one fact that there had been
an entrance on the level of the lowest course of
the foundations closed with a great stone, and that
a staircase from without led down to it.
It seems probable, as Mr. Pullan supposes, that
the chamber in which the remains of Mausolus
were deposited was on the level of this entrance,
and it is remarkable how his arrangement of the
interior tallies with that of the Koul Oba, near
Kertsch, which has been already referred to, and
which we can hardly doubt to have been the burial-
place of one or more of the Greek kings of the
Bosphorus.5
s For an account of this tomb, see Antiquites du Bospliore'